Exclude Meaning
/ɪksˈkluːd/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
verbTo expel; to put out.
Sentence Examples
We cannot exclude feeling from our experience.
They decided to exclude him from their circle.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The school decided to ____ the student from the soccer team.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The committee decided to ____ certain questionable data from the final research report.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...]."
— 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:
"[T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country."
— 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:
"[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]"
— 1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick, The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The school decided to ____ the student from the soccer team.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The committee decided to ____ certain questionable data from the final research report.